Mia Jade Riley: What Caused Two Rottweilers To Snap

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Three dog experts have revealed why two Rottweilers may have snapped and mauled a five-week-old baby girl to death at a family barbeque - as they warn owners of aggressive breeds against 'over-stimulating' their pets.
Mia Jade Riley was killed in a vicious dog attack at a home in Moruya, on the  south coast, about 10.40pm on Saturday.
The newborn was asleep in a bassinet at the end of a table surrounded by up to eight adults when the pair of Rottweilers, which had been sleeping three metres away, suddenly pounced and mauled her to death.
Friends insisted the attack came out of nowhere but leading dog trainers now claim a sound or a smell could have been the trigger to overstimulate the animals.
K9 Trainer Liarne Henry added they could have been affected by something called 'sleep startle', which occurs when dogs are woken up suddenly or unexpectedly. 
Friends of the family told Daily Mail Australia that the dog's attack was completely random.

One of the Rottweilers is pictured
Mia Jade Riley's family (Mia pictured with her older sister) said the infant was asleep when the vicious dog attack occurred
The newborn was asleep in a bassinet at the end of a table surrounded by up to eight adults when the pair of Rottweilers attacked
'Every dog breed has the potential to attack even their owner at that moment, because it's a fearful reaction and it just takes them by surprise,' Ms Henry explained. 
The trainer, who has also owned Rottweilers, told that the phenomenon could lead to aggression in affected dogs before they realise what happened. 
'We forget that dogs possess up to 300 million olfactory receptors.

So they smell millions of times better than us, so that could have been a trigger,' she said.
'Or even the sound. Just because we can't hear something it doesn't mean that dogs can't because dogs have a huge frequency range up to 60,000 hertz.'
Another trainer, Mark Hickey, suggested one dog could've gotten overexcited, stimulating the other. 
'When you get one dog that gets really excited, the other dog can feed into that and then, obviously, you don't just have one dog that's bitten a child or a person, you've got two, so the damage is just going to be way worse,' he said.
'It's just another timely reminder that children should never be left alone.

Things can happen so quickly within a couple of seconds.' 
Dog Behaviour Specialist Nathan Williams also suggested that the dogs may have been overstimulated.
K9 Trainer Liarne Henry said the dogs could have been affected by something called 'sleep startle', which occurs when dogs are woken up suddenly or unexpectedly
Dog Behaviour Specialist Nathan Williams also suggested that the dogs may have been overstimulated
'In Sydney right now there'd be thousands of Rottweilers, but we hear of one story which is the exception to the rule,' Mr Williams said.
'So unfortunately, in situations like this, dogs are typically overstimulated and played with, especially with things like squeaky toys and tug of war.
'It's not in a dog's nature to kill - no dog has that nature - and especially Rottweilers, if anything.
'But if we stimulate them, teach them to chew and bite on things they shouldn't be, then that causes these potential side effects.'
The dogs belonged to the neighbour of Mia's grandfather Ross Galvin, whose house the family were visiting for dinner.
In 2018, one of the neighbours posted a photo on Facebook of the two Rottweilers believed to be responsible for the attack.
The image shows the black dogs sitting side by side looking up at the camera, their tongues happily dangling from their mouths. 
In a tragic twist, baby Mia's mother lovingly gushed over the animals in comments on the photo, writing: 'Haha so proud.'
Prior to Mia's death, the dogs had reportedly spent time around the newborn's older sister, aged two, without any issues.  
A friend said Tom and aydınlatma dünyası Lani Riley's two-year-old daughter had also been around the dogs repeatedly since she was born without any incident
Pictured: Ross Galvin, Mia's grandfather.

The little girl was mauled to death by dogs during a family dinner
Mia's grandfather Ross Galvin is pictured, right.

He is standing next to a neighbour. There is no suggestion the neighbour pictured is the owner of the dogs who attacked Mia
The resurfacing of the eerie post comes as Mr Riley's sister Anna Zandberg defended the young couple as 'incredible parents' on Wednesday.
Her defence came in response to social media trolls who wrongly claimed the parents had failed to 'supervise' their daughter.
'[The] baby was not adequately supervised or it wouldn't have happened,' one posted on Facebook. 
'If you can't see that it's the people responsible for caring for the child's fault, then it's something that can happen again.
'People need to learn from their mistakes, not act like they did absolutely nothing wrong.'
Ms Zandberg lashed out in response: '[Mia] was never alone for her five short weeks on Earth.

She was and is dearly loved and she was taken away right before our eyes.'
But the troll hit back with the incorrect claim: 'If she was never alone then why did nobody witness the attack?'
An emotional Ms Zandberg asked why the troll was 'intent on causing us pain', and clarified that the tragedy unfolded in front of several adults.
'My sister-in-law and brother are incredible and this happened in a room with everyone right there,' she said.
In another comment, Mia's distraught aunt said: 'We are grieving and traumatised and you are all out like a lynch mob.

Is this really how the world is?'
She said Mia's parents are 'the most loving dedicated and protective parents who have just experienced the most unimaginable thing a person can'.
A family friend told Daily Mail Australia both sides of Mia family 'are not doing very good'.
'It's just a tragedy for everyone involved,' they said.
'Our thoughts are just with the parents and everyone involved who is going to be affected by this for the rest of their lives.' 
A police source told Daily Mail Australia there is no suggestion of wrongdoing by the parents and they will not be charged.
But it has come to light that multiple neighbours claim to have reported the dogs to council months before the attack.
They said they were so afraid of the Rottweilers that they had stopped walking by the property where they lived.
The Rottweilers were seized by Eurobodalla Shire Council following the incident.

It is believed they have been euthanised.